[108] New form of his overtures, national melodies, &c.—(Straker). Love of traditions, melancholy, fanciful, spiritual; also popular.—(Der Freischütz).
[109] I will not here enter into the question whether or not Meyerbeer desecrated this hymn by introducing it into an opera. Such was the opinion of Mendelssohn, who thought that but for Meyerbeer and the Huguenots, Luther's hymn might have been befittingly introduced in an oratorio which he intended to compose on the subject of the Reformation.
[110] Another proof that this device is not new in the hands of Herr Wagner.